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By bringing MobileIron and Pulse Secure into the Ivanti portfolio, it will expand its capabilities to include even more devices, embed greater security protocols across infrastructures, and allow organizations to proactively and autonomously self-heal, self-secure, and self-service devices. This business combination further solidifies Ivanti as a global market leader in UEM, Zero Trust Security, and IT Service Management, and positions it to deliver intelligent and secure experiences across remote infrastructure, devices, and people in what is called the "Everywhere enterprise."
ScaleMP announced the general availability of its patented vSMP Foundation Version 10.0 line of products, after months of technology preview use at select customers and partners. Support for Azure Cloud and Oracle Cloud is expected by year end.
From now on, Citadelo will actively grow its footprint in Switzerland and across Europe to help enterprises secure their technology infrastructure in the current threat landscape. Artmotion was looking to boost its cloud security offering by adding white-hat hacking and was drawn to the team of 30 young ethical hackers at Citadelo.
Two security vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric's programmable logic controllers could allow attackers to compromise a PLC and move on to more sophisticated critical infrastructure attacks. There are two types of application protection available: Read protection protects the controller's application from being read by any unauthorized personnel at the engineering workstation; and the write protection protects the controller's application from unauthorized changes.
Ermetic announced a platform that provides full stack visibility and control over multi-cloud infrastructure entitlements. To help security and cloud operations teams reduce their attack surface, Ermetic combines a holistic view of both network access and IAM policy entitlements to comprehensively assess risks.
Confluera announced Confluera 2.0 which includes new features and capabilities that will address evolving customer needs as they battle cyberattack amid the current volatile security environment. Confluera XDR delivers a purpose-built cloud workload detection and response solution with the unique ability to deterministically track threats progressing through the environment.
SecurityScorecard released a report earlier this month that looked through the overall cybersecurity posture of all 56 US states and territories leading up to the presidential election. The study found that 75% of all states and territories had IT infrastructures that are vulnerable to a variety of cyberattacks.
The magnitude of extreme weather events - and their prevalence in areas that have not previously been prone to them - will create havoc for organizations that have not prepared for their impact. Extreme weather events have frightening consequences for people's lives and have the potential to degrade or destroy critical infrastructure.
Azure Defender for IoT - Microsoft's new security solution for discovering unmanaged IoT/OT assets and IoT/OT vulnerabilities - is now in public preview and can be put to the test free of charge. About Azure Defender for IoT. "As industrial and critical infrastructure organizations implement digital transformation, the number of networked IoT and Operational Technology devices has greatly proliferated. Many of these devices lack visibility by IT teams and are often unpatched and misconfigured, making them soft targets for adversaries looking to pivot deeper into corporate networks," Phil Neray, Director of Azure IoT Security Strategy at Microsoft, explained.
75% of all 56 U.S. states and territories leading up to the presidential election, showed signs of a vulnerable IT infrastructure, a SecurityScorecard report reveals. Since most state websites offer access to voter and election information, these findings may indicate unforeseen issues leading up to, and following, the US election.